Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 11:24AM 'Area 52' The Next Big Screen Bound Comic Book
From Superman to Spawn, the popular comic book turned movie trend will last forever. The latest example has well known producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Summit Entertainment developing a film adaptation of the Image Comics mini-series Area 52, Deadline reports.
The Brian Haberlin comic launched in 2001, and follows a group of soldiers who provide security for a top secret, remote military storage facility. The kind of place where the government keeps alien spaceships, sasquatch and Elvis under wraps. An extraterrestrial held captive escapes and the soldiers must use crate specific items on hand in order to defeate the alien.
Apparently, this comic turned feature film idea has been making the rounds in Hollywood for years, and far before the SyFy channel aired its similarly premised series Warehouse 13.
di Bonaventura has produced projects like Transformers, Red and G.I. Joe in the past, so creating a marketable film with the long shelved Area 52 should be old hat for this group. Finding a capable director shouldn't be a difficult task either.
I'm not comic book enthusiast, but you don't have to be the Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons to know Area 52 is loaded with potential.
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